Tim Pernetti: There's no place better than Big Ten for Rutgers

12:10 AM,
Nov. 21, 2012

Piscataway, NJ - Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, Rutgers Athletic Director Tim Pernetti and Rutgers University president Robert Barchi officially announce the university's move from the Big East Conference to the Big Ten during a press conference, Tuesday, November 20, 2012, at the Hale Center in Piscataway.

Written by

Keith Sargeant
| @RUScuttlebutt

The central figures involved in the most transformative day in Rutgers athletics history couldn't pinpoint the exact moment the deal became serious.

Jim Delany, the longtime Big Ten commissioner who grew up in New Jersey and knew all about what Rutgers could bring to his prestigious conference, said there wasn't "a real beginning to this conversation."

"Tim and I have known each other for probably 15 or 20 years," Delany said, referring to Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti. "This is a conversation that's played out over three or four years, me keeping him apprised of how we were ...